The Last Word In Business

Perhaps after you'd had a few glasses of holiday brew, this next item will look better. Our last word in business is: Ugly Christmas Sweater.

While searching for a way to help her kids pay for college, Anne Marie Blackman spotted a trend she thought she might capitalize on: The holiday-themed sweaters she found online, they didn't seem ugly enough. So, she started My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc. for people hoping to win a prize cheese wheel for the scariest holiday sweater at a party.

Blackman says she starts with an outdated Christmas sweater, often with shoulder pads and tacky patterns, then she uglies it up.

ANNE MARIE BLACKMAN: If there's an angel sweater, I might have a 3-D angel that maybe used to be on the top of a tree and I can feed lights through it, and make it bright and attach it to a sweater.